Have you ever wonder why “who” and “whom” both exist? (1 Viewer)

[Ahsoka]

And it’s not even just because of formality or pretentiousness or that stuff The reason is that it comes from grammatical cases. English used to have a lot more cases than it currently does, but a lot of those have died off or become rarely used, or used for very few words. Some remain, that’s how we get words like he vs him vs his, or who vs whom vs whose. Many do not, you wouldn’t call a horse something different between the nominative cases (subject) vs objective case (object). The pretty rigid English word order ensures that we understand the sentence regardless. Whom is a remnant of the old case system (and will probably die off soon, let’s be real), which also leads the the association with formality, it’s an old thing that common speech has basically moved on from, but formal language is always behind

 

[velvet]

grammatical cases.

I LOVE GRAMMATICAL CASES I LOVE WHO BEING NOMINATIVE AND WHOM BEING GENITIVE AND DATIVE CASE AND ACCUSATIVE I LOVE CASES SO MUCH I LOVE HOW IN LATIN NOUN ENDINGS CHANGE BASED ON THEIR GRAMMATICAL USE AND CASE I LOVE HOW THEY CHANGE BASED ON IF THEIR SINGULAR AND PLURAL I LOVE CASES I LOVE LOCATIVE CASE I LOVE NOMINATIVE CASE I LOVE ALL CASES I LOVE HOW ALL FUNCTIONS OF LATIN RELATE TO CASES I LOVE HOW OTHER LANGUAGES ALSO HAVE CASES CASESSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Selfmate]

On Kpop Sesame Street today is brought to you by the letter M

turning one's whos in one's whoms

 

[ChiaraStar169]

I LOVE GRAMMATICAL CASES I LOVE WHO BEING NOMINATIVE AND WHOM BEING GENITIVE AND DATIVE CASE AND ACCUSATIVE I LOVE CASES SO MUCH I LOVE HOW IN LATIN NOUN ENDINGS CHANGE BASED ON THEIR GRAMMATICAL USE AND CASE I LOVE HOW THEY CHANGE BASED ON IF THEIR SINGULAR AND PLURAL I LOVE CASES I LOVE LOCATIVE CASE I LOVE NOMINATIVE CASE I LOVE ALL CASES I LOVE HOW ALL FUNCTIONS OF LATIN RELATE TO CASES I LOVE HOW OTHER LANGUAGES ALSO HAVE CASES CASESSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!

haha what has gotten into you???

 

[ChiaraStar169]

On Kpop Sesame Street today is brought to you by the letter M

turning one's whos in one's whoms

and the number 17... for obvs reasons... I mean have you heard of any other group with just a number as their whole name???

 

[Selfmate]

and the number 17... for obvs reasons... I mean have you heard of any other group with just a number as their whole name???

hmmm...not sure that's a good number for the kids
one kpop member
two kpop members
...
twelve kpop members
thirteen kpop members

(what no more members?)

 

[velvet]

haha what has gotten into you???

CASES ARE MY FAVOURITE THING IN THE WORLD I CANT HELP BUT LBUBBER OUT GRAMMATICAL CASES WHEN SOMEONE BRINGS UP THE CHANCE

 

[eclipsoul]

if anything i wondered why there's only three of them because my first language has all of these (yes, every word with a question mark is a way to say "who")

 

[Ahsoka]

if anything i wondered why there's only three of them because my first language has all of these (yes, every word with a question mark is a way to say "who")

Hungarians got like 20 I think But ngl Russian has 5-6 and I usually knew when to use the right one but still don’t actually know why whom exists in English because I just went with feel